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Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets Nos 5 and 6

Peter Maxwell Davies’s string quartet odyssey commissioned by Naxos goes from strength to strength with this resourceful and rewarding pairing....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2006

Alkan Esquisses, Op 63

Marco Polo's much appreciated commitment to the Alkan cause continues with two more issues of piano music performed by Laurent...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1995

Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades

Not a few Tchaikovsky enthusiasts now place his Queen of Spades in front of the more popular Onegin as his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1988

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.20

Ian Bostridge's singing of the Kosegarten setting Geist der Liebe, in praise of the spirit of love, marks him out...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Vaughan Williams Sancta Civitas; Dona nobis pacem

Though a period of 10 years separates the two works in date of composition, they have such affinity that it...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Sonatas for Bassoon and Continuo

Messieurs Corrette and Boismortier between them kept Paris well supplied with entertaining chamber music for the greater part of the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1984

Rutter (A) Song in Season

It is eight years since John Rutter released his landmark recording of Mass of the Children. This new anthology collects...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2010

Bach Secular Cantata, BWV201

Helmuth Rilling’s unabated desire to record and re-record Bach is clearly endemic in his profound identification with a choral oeuvre...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1998

Romantic Harp Music of the 19th Century, Vol. 3

''Know the three things which are necessary to a man in a house: a virtuous wife, a cushion on his...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Debussy La Mer; Elgar Enigma Variations

Everyone who heard Toscanini conduct or rehearse marvelled at his ability to get precisely what he wanted from an orchestra....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1988

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